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While most of the newer versions of Quicken have a fairly simple built in function for closing out a past fiscal year, I don’t think most people need to do that. When you close out the past year, it sets up a separate file for the activity through the past year-end and a new one beginning from the start of the current fiscal year. Quicken for Mac 2005 - retired April 30, 2015 Criticism [ edit ] Intuit stopped supporting its Quicken software in the United Kingdom in 2005, leaving many thousands of users with only partly functional software.
Quicken Alternatives. However, this sale has left some users wondering about alternative methods of tracking their spending and creating a budget. Luckily, the personal finance space has evolved over the last several years, and there are plenty of new players ready to swoop in to provide them with the guidance they need.
Here are a few alternatives to the personal finance program giant that are worth checking out. 7 Alternatives to Using Quicken 1) Personal Capital may have the best all-around money tools available, and they are completely free! Like Quicken, Personal Capital users can link all of their accounts and track them all in one place. This even includes tracking your investments and your net worth. Also like Quicken, Personal Capital tracks all of your spending and categorizes it for you — allowing you to get a clear picture of where your money is going each month. Personal Capital also features a retirement planning tool and a retirement savings fee analyzer.
It can be used either on a desktop or through a mobile device. One thing Quicken users might miss is the ability to track and pay your bills from within the software itself. Even lacking this feature, Personal Capital is certainly one app that you should try. 2) Mint For long-time Quicken users, Mint is probably the app which is. Like Quicken, allows you to view all of your accounts in one place. Simply link your accounts, and the Mint software tracks your entire financial life.
Through their desktop or mobile app, you can use Mint’s budgeting software, track your investments, and view your categorized expenses. They also offer users alerts and advice, as well as the ability to get a free credit score. In addition to Mint, Quicken users should check out Mint Bills. This is a fun feature that helps you monitor your bills and pay them directly through the app. Best of all, both Mint and Mint Bills are free. 3) You Need a Budget (YNAB) If you’re looking for a great budgeting software, is it. YNAB takes the guesswork out of budgeting by providing you with a flexible “living budget” that will save you money and help you stay positive.
However, if you’re looking for complete automation, YNAB is not it. The program connects directly with your bank account(s), but you have to tell it when to download transactions. You are also able to schedule known transactions ahead of time or download transactions that you can then load to YNAB. More good news is that YNAB works everywhere — even without an internet connection. In addition to the desktop software, YNAB has an app available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. The software does cost $50/year, but the license is good for all YNAB updates.
Plus, you can try the program for free before committing! See our review of YNAB 4) GoodBudget is a free mobile app that can be used to help you create a budget based on an “envelope system.” It is a pretty basic setup, but it gets the job done. Just sync your bank accounts with GoodBudget, and it will help you track both your income and your spending. Simply set an amount for each category, and you can easily see how close you are to reaching your spending allowance for the month. You can also sync your budget across multiple phones, so everyone in your household has access to the information.
This app is available on and devices. Related: 5) HomeBudget If you’re looking for a very detailed mobile app to help replace Quicken, HomeBudget could be a great choice. This app may have the best interface of all the mobile apps on this list. It is clean, color coded, and easy to read. Once you link your accounts, you’ll be able to see your expenses, income, budget, accounts, and bills.
There is also a chart that shows you how much you are spending as a percentage of your income. This app also offers you the ability to search for past transactions, so you can easily pull up any information you may need. HomeBudget is available in (free for the lite version) or on. 6) Dollarbird Dollarbird is a mobile app that uses a monthly calendar as the basis for its design. This makes it easy for you to see when and where you may have expenses coming up.
After you sync your accounts with, the app helps you track your spending and income. Unique to Dollarbird is the 5-year financial plan, which allows you to set (and hopefully meet). Dollarbird also alerts you to any upcoming bills that need to be paid. The app is available for free on and devices. Related: 7) Level Money Level Money is an easy to use personal finance app that helps you track your daily, weekly, and monthly spending and income.
Simply, link your bank account to the app and let do the rest. With this app, you can automatically generate a monthly plan based on your income and expenses.
You can also compare your spending from month to month and track your spending by merchant and category. The app is simple, effective, and free. You can find it on and devices. Wrapping Up Whether you are a Quicken user looking for alternatives, or someone who is just ready to get their finances in order, know that you have many options.
These are several of our favorite financial tools, available to help you automatically track your saving and spending habits. Since many of them are free, there is no risk to trying them out. Sign up for a few of them, and see which you like best (and which you’re likely to stick with!).
It doesn’t matter how you track your money, as long as you do it. Listen to our show on 22 of the best money tools. Darrell Apparently, those who are bashing Quicken’s subscription requirement have not used Quicken Bill Pay in previous versions. That feature cost $9.95 a month for 20 transactions with Quicken 2016 and prior.
That’s $119.40 annually! With the 2018 Premier version Quicken Bill Pay is included although I understand you only get 15 transactions. Don’t misunderstand, I am not a Quicken happy camper. I’ve been on board since 198x and have come close to saying good bye to the bill pay feature several times (Quicken takes that feature away when the version is retired forcing you to upgrade to the current version) and just print checks with a printer. But you still have to buy stamps and those stamps add up not to mention the proprietary envelopes and blank checks. It’s a catch 22 scenario.
The perfect program would be one that allows a dot matrix printer to print the account number and routing number on blank check stock, plus the latitude where to place my name and address and the name and address of the payee so I could use a standard #10 envelope which I could purchase at Walmart. I fear that is asking too much. Why not a laser printer? Those checks come 3 to a sheet and most laser printers will not allow a single check to advance through the printer.
On the flip side check reading equipment in the banking industry probably will not read the account and routing numbers printed with the ribbon in dot matrix printers. Oh, what to do??? John Wells With Mint you can change transaction dates when needed (for budgeting alignment). For us who receive a 1st of the month paycheck, which usually posts early when the 1st falls on a weekend or holiday (non-banking day), the inability to change the date completely messes up the ending month and next month budgets. Same with any bank “auto-drafts” on the 1st.
Happens about 3 times a year. Or what if I make an ATM withdrawal on or near the last day of the month but want it to hit the next month where it will be spent?
This makes Personal Finance (PC) worthless for budgeting. The change transaction date feature has been requested for years and PC ignores it. Poor customer service in my opinion. No thanks to PC. URDRWHO Can I say that a program that was once very good is now something I despise? Ok so I don’t go with the annual rent program and “I thought” all I was losing was web connect for automatic downloading of my credit card accounts.
I’ll go back to the old way of downloading the QFX file and import. Apparently Quicken 2015 is not allowing an import of QFX files. Another push toward their rental policy! Since the days of DOS I’ve used Quicken but I am going on a long hard search to find an alternative. Who ever the heck owns the program these days deserves a loss of revenue and a lower stock price. Joe Busfield Word of caution regarding Personal Finance.
Yes it will accumulate investment and banking information, BUT then they use it to try to sell you on their investment services. Trying to move you away from safe mutual funds like Vanguard into their relative expensive adviser services with investments in their picks of individual stocks. Saying no to the phone solicitation/meeting apparently sounds like maybe to the Personal Finance adviser who will call again.
I just deleted my account to avoid the hard sell. Marty I am no fan of online/cloud based financial programs. I feel like everything is out there anymore and we are headed for no privacy at all, hackers breaches everyday. I still use quicken and enter transactions every morning. It is not hard to do. Because Quickens budget is subpar, use YNAB and a spreadsheet. If quicken goes to subscription based, then I will just use the old YNAB and spreadsheet.
Once YNAB 4 is no longer working will use spreadsheet. I hate being forced to use online stuff with little to no customization. Thanks, Marty. Socrates Anastasiadis I’ve used Quicken forever & it was “Wealthbuilder” before that. Quicken has been good in creating my annual detailed expense layout as a 1099 employee for tax purposes!
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I haven’t quite found a decent replacement! I wait each year when Costco has a discount (like right now) & update every few years (have to cuz of security protocol requirements, or so they say).
I also use Personal Capital but that is sorely lacking in detailed expense categories & none if you have rental property! It is excellent for stock/mutual fund/ETF investments & retirement planning! I do pay $10/m to WF to integrate my checking account to Quicken so I wont have to manually do it, but at this point I think I’m ready to try some of the other choices listed here!
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